Barbara Heck

RUCKLE, BARBARA (Heck) b. 1734 Ballingrane (Republic of Ireland) is the daughter of Bastian (Sebastian) Ruckle and Margaret Embury m. 1760 Paul Heck in Ireland and they had seven children out of whom four survived infancy d. 17 August. 1804 in Augusta Township Upper Canada.

The subject of the biographies is generally a person who has played a key role in significant historical events, or who has developed unique ideas or proposals that have been captured in written form. Barbara Heck however left no documents or correspondence, so any evidence of such given the time of her wedding is not the only evidence. There are no surviving primary sources from which one could reconstruct her motives or her behavior throughout her time. She has nevertheless become heroized in the beginning of North American Methodism historical. For this particular case, the biographer's role is to delineate and explain the legend and, if feasible, describe the true person who was enshrined into it.

It was the Methodist historian Abel Stevens wrote in 1866. The progress of Methodism in the United States has now indisputably put the Name of Barbara Heck first on the listing of women's names in the ecclesiastical history of the New World. The significance of her accomplishments will be largely due to the setting of her precious Name based on the history of the cause the memory of her is recognized more than the story of her own lives. Barbara Heck's involvement in the starting of Methodism was an unlucky coincidence. Her fame can be attributed to the fact that it's come to be a standard practice for incredibly successful movements or institutions to exalt their roots, so as to keep ties to the old.